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" Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice. "
Target
Prejudice
Hatred
" Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me. "
Salt
Her
Journalist
" But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions. "
Intentions
News
Watching
" But my favorite work is always my next piece. "
Favorite
Always
Next
" If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story. "
Successful
Story
Service
" I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate. "
More
Attention
Passionate
" It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled. "
Fool
Cannot
Who
" It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it. "
Faith
Time
Question
" I've always been a fine artist. "
Been
Artist
Fine
" Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical. "
Important
Story
Edge
" Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty. "
Most
Me
Duty
" My art became very public. "
Public
Became
Art
" My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way. "
Hope
Challenge
Work
" The media's job is to question a premise. "
Job
Media
Premise
" We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products. "
Tribe
Function
Mentality
" What do we believe? Why do we believe it? "
Believe
Why
" When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people. "
Try
People
Help
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